I just received this in the mail for $25.00! I will give it a shot tomorrow night on the wife's van and report back. Looks very nice and I can't believe it was only $25. This is an air operated one man brake bleeding kit. You must ahve an air compressor for this to work. Similar kits sell in the $100+ range. It comes with two different kinds of feed bottles and one bottle that does the sucking. I found it here. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...item=&item=230214355613&rd=1#ebayphotohosting
I will ahve more info up tonight or tomorrow. I am going to use it tonight and bleed the brakes on the wife's minivan. I did suck out some fluid from the resivoir last night and it worked very well.
I've used many different versions of those things. Only good for sucking fluid out of hard to reach areas/out of reserviors. Absolute JUNK for bleeding a brake system. I spent 3 days trying to get the system bleed with one of those during class. We were told to NOT touch the brake pedal at all. Class was ending and we were going to get graded on how well it stopped. Obviously since the system was full of air, it wasnt going to stop. It took me and 2 other people 5 minutes to do the normal bleed method (one at wheel, one on the pedal, one at the mast cyl) while the 4th person distracted the instructor. It stopped. We passed. Since then I have tried air bleed system with zero luck. Yes I followed instructions. Then I made up my own. Fail. Manual bleeding FTW. I have found a successful method of doing a complete fluid flush/bleed with just ONE person. It does not involve anything other than: 1. Hose that fits the bleeder screw. 2. Bottle to catch the fluid from the hose-bleeder screw. 3. Wrench appropriate for the bleeder screw. 4. Extra fluid. 5. YOU!
The King has one of these that we used to drain the system. As far as bleeding, We also found Will's 5 step method useful
My Review. Let me first say that I do not have the best air compressor. It might flow 100psi max. It worked as advertised and I was able to bleed each side of my wife's van in about 5-10 minutes. It has a hook to make the handle constatly engage. I left it engage and watched the fluid level. I would let it almost empty then fill it back up and move to the next corner. The speed bleeders are much faster per corner but this does not require any pumping of the pedal. I would like to try this on a real air compressor and see how much better it could be. For $20 though, it is hard to beat.